The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1887-05-04
LATER NEWS.

MEMORIAL services for President Arthur
were held in the Assembly Chamber at Al
bany. Governor Hill presided, and impress
sive addresses were made by ex-Attorney
General Brewster and Chauncey NJ Depew.
THE Massachusetts, House passed the High
License bill to its third reading by vote of
1SS to so.
SIX New York firms doing nearly all the
silver manufacturing in the country have
combined in opposition to the knights OF
Labor, and have locked out their silversmiths
about 1900 skilled mechanics. There are
only about 1000 silvermiths in the whole
country.
Two neighbors-John Ray and William
Carson-quarreled about some land near
Chattanooga, Tenn, and shot each other
dead.
A LARGE number of Illinois cities have been
holding municipal elections, the principal
feature being the license question. The ma
jority Of cities declared for license, but in the
smaller places the anti-license ticket was uni
formly successful.
ADDITIONAL appointments by the Presi-
dent: Samuel F. Bigelow, of New Jersey, to
be Attorney of the United States for New
Jersey. Consuls: H. l.. Merritt, of Illinois,
at Chemnitz; L. A. Spalding, of New York,
at AK La Chapelle.
THE sealing vessels have nearly all re-
turned to st. Johns, N. F. The fishery this
year has been comparative failure.
Turr ,,o1;oa Of o,J n.lo.,. L....
covered plots to kill the Car by blowing up
the imperial train in the event of the Cars
visiting southern Russia.
A LAND SLIDE at Fuller Station, Penn,
caused the wreck Of coke train, and the
death of two train hands.
CAPTAIN W. w. BUSH, the first Union vol
unteer in the war, was buried the other day
with civic and military honos at Lockport,
NY.
MAJOR JOHN E. BLAINE, paymaster broth
er of the Hon. James G. Blaine, died a few
days ago at Hot Springs, Ark.
A FIRE at Meridian, Miss, destroyed two
colored churches.
SEVEN men were injured, three of them
fatally, by dynamite explosion at Murphy
& Sons camp in Upper Michigan.
THREE men were killed and two fatally
injured by the partial wreck off construction
train near Taswell, Ind.
IN the Florida Legislature vote cast for
United States Senator was distributed among
tllirty-two names.
COMMISSIONER SPARKS, of the General
Land Office, has ordered a re-survey Of an
immense tract of land in New Mexico, con-
taing about 500. 600 acres, and said to be held
by fraud.
A PARIS dispatch states that N. Sohnaebe-
Ter, special French Commissary, had been
decoyed across the frontier, arrested after a
fierce struggle with German police agents,
and taken to Metz The affair has caused
considerable excitement and the renewal cf
war rumors.
ROME advices state that the Pope's recogni-
ton of the Knights of the Labor has dis
pleased many of the Cardinals, and that re-
monstrance has been sent to the Vatican.
A DISCUSSION of the Irish question at q
meeting in Kensington, England, ended in
free fight, during which many persons, in
cluding two members Of Parliament, were
injured.
A SHARP shock of earthquake has been
felt over the whole of the Island of Jersey.
THE British budget estimates the Govern
ments's revenue for the coming year at S455,-
IT'S, 900 and the expenditures at S45O, 100000.